John payne translator (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second Printing. 316pp. Black cloth, gold stamp on spine. Very little wear. Pages are uneven cut. Clean text. Different translators for many of the poems, including Swinburne, and Rossetti, besides the ones credited on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. L6. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.45 inches. In Stock.

Hard. Zustand: Good. Complete 9 volume set. Limiter to 500 numbered copies on Holland paper. Set number 276. Published London: Printed for sunscribers only, 1884. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9 1/4", each volume approximately 400pp., with twenty-one eaux-fortes by M.A. Lalauze. Most plates lacking, only four are present, text complete. Bound in full cream vellum with gilt titles and designs, top edge gilting, Printed on heavy Holland laid paper, some sheets uncut. Closed tear at the title head of volume six, vellum rough on volume one, light cover soil, usual offset darkening inside covers. Bindings strong, still attractive. Internally near fine, pages bright, unmarked.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, 8vo, lxxii,206pp, owner's bookplates of Robert and Evely Benson (and one other) on endpapers, roughcut edges slightly browned, text clean and binding sound, decorated parchment-covered boards, slightly marked, Good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with numerous illustrations. Front hinge is weak. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 12mo. Original brown cloth backed boards with printed paper spine label, viii, 229 pp., [2] ads., lacking rear endpapers, two ownership stamps in black and purple on front pastedown, some tearing to margins of leaves (text unaffected), some light foxing and staining to leaves, front hinges starting, corners and edges worn, text on the spine label worn out, sunning to upper rear board, but still a good copy of this important devotional work by Thomas Kempis. Book One: Prepatory Instructions for Spiritual Life, Book Two: Instructions for the More Intiment Enjoyment of the Spiritual Life, and Book Three: Of Divine Illumination.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Two uncommon anthologies of poetry from the Sixteenth Century Renaissance Period and Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century 'Classic Period'. Translated and edited by John Payne, a poet in his own right, the volumes contain work by Marc de Papillon, Mathurin Regnier and Francois Maynard, as well as Pontus de Tyard, Pierre de Ronsard and Jacques Tahureau. Both volumes are part of a limited edition with an unspecified quantity printed; the earlier volume is number thirteen, whereas the latter is number twenty. In vellum binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart, ther are some markings to the boards on both volumes, as well as minor shelfwear. Internally, the pages are firmly bound, irregularly cut , are somewhat chipped and are generally bright and clean throughout. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Limited Edition #301/1500. Octavo, 4 volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition slip cases. Spines are black cloth with gilt labels and black lettering. Slipcases have mild shelving wear along extremities, mild bumping to closed end corners and mild chipping to open end corners. Boards have mild rubbing wear along spines. CONTENTS: Volume 1, 330 pages - Volume 2, "Notes for the First Volume", 136 pages - Volume 3, "The Second Volume", 344 pages - Volume 4 "Notes for the Second Volume", 262 pages. Shelved in hallway overflow. 1395108. Special Collections.…

16mo, pp. 256; a sheep binding under an applied over-binding of full sheep, red morocco label on original spine showing through a diecut window in the over-binding; sheep a bit rubbed, short tear on spine where label shows through; light foxing, ex-Hollis Social Library, with their bookplate and a very small rubberstamp on the title page. Payne was a publisher and associate of Samuel Johnson. His translation of A Kempis first appeared in 1785, and is printed here with his 38-page preface. American Imprints 8672.…

London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation Only. 1882-1884. Nine volumes, small 4to. Original art vellum, ornamented and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut; bindings a bit darkened; bookplates of the Glasgow entrepreneur James Cowan (1828-1907), styled Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall Armigeri, inside front covers.First edition of this translation, set 261 of a limited edition of 500."John Payne was much admired in the late 19th and early 20th centuries both for his original verse and for his translations of Arabic and Persian narratives. Payne was born in 1842 and lived for most of his life in London, where he worked as a solicitor. From 1866 onwards, he moved in artistic and literary circles , meeting some of the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur O'Shaugnessy, Swinburne, Catulle Mendes, Anatole France, Richard Burton and others. Payne's remarkable aptitude for languages enabled him to translate French, Italian Turkish, Arabic and Persian prose and verse. He never married and in later life became a recluse, dying on 15 February 1916" (John Payne Collection, online via archiveshub).Indebted to Richard Burton who assisted, John Payne in the preface claims that this edition is "the first complete translation of the great Arabic compendium of romantic fiction that has been attempted in any European language" (I, p. vii). Indeed, Burton's translation appeared later in the 1880s.…